RISE OF THE MEC

Rise of the 

Middle East Confederation

صعود اتحاد الشرق الأوسط

We are all very old peoples. We all laugh, we love and we dance in circles with our comrades. We have many types of language and custom, and many of these customs have been subsumed, or evolved, or were maintained with zeal and blood of martyrs. 

It is not in our interests to keep fighting even if we have no will to make peace. For it is clear that we have no ability or also ACTUAL willingness to completely destroy each other. So we must find a way to live on our very different terms.

For thousands of years our people gathered at the crossroads of the world. Or were born here. We traded, we intermarried, we made alliances, we raided, we fled, we made war and also, we conquered, pillaged, assimilated, massacred, made total fitna. But none of our peoples have killed in the numbers we now kill with weapons from outside our sphere.  Many tribes, many peoples, ARE WE who remember our ways and our customs BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS. With stiff necks and incredible stubbornness to relinquish our sense of identities OR BELIEFS. 

We all live with memories and tribulations going back several thousand years. 

This is a treatise co-written by the People of the Book, but also those that came before these books, and those that never believed in a religion.  It is pieced together and translated differently by the Zoroastrians, and the Judeans; by the Persians, by Arabs, and Phoenicians, by the Kurds; by the Palestinians living as citizens in exile or in camps as refugees. By Assyrians and Druze, by Shi’a, by Sunni, by Orthodox and Latin Christians. By Yemanites, Chechens, Assyrians, Armenians, Maronites, Sunni and Shi’a Lebanese, Jordanians and Syrian Arabs, Alawites, and Georgians as well. 

“All who wish to see peace and if not peace, separation and long-term ceasefire. If not peace, if not understanding; then trade and normality. All people in our region have suffered enough. To survive the wars of the last four thousand years, to stop the wars of tomorrow; 

“Enough! Ceasefire. 

Build confidence apart.” 

“Let us separate into our respective camps and return to our ancestral lands or in those lands we are welcomed; let us confederate and defeat forever the meddling of outside nations that speak of peace, trade in arms, and reduce us to barbarism!”

“These authors and practitioners of a fourth track diplomacy call for an end to false, wasteful peace. An end to all outside invasions. 

If we cannot pray in the same ways, or speak the same languages; this is no impediment to declare HOLLIS! HUDNA! From our many flags let us become a Middle East Confederation from the Western Maghreb to the Indus River.”   

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PREAMBLE………………………………………………………………………………………3

CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY OF PRIOR NEGOTIATIONS…………………………………..12

UNIVERSAL INDICATORS……………………………………………………………………45

STATEMENTS OF POSITIONS……………………………………………………………………………………….45

CORE ARGUMENTS……………………………………………………………………………………………………..45

MANUEVERS…………………………………………………………………………………..45

PART ONE………………………………………………………………………………………45

• Inner Book One: The Judean and Palestinian State…………………………………..

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PART TWO………………………………………………………………………………….50

• Inner Book Two: Homage to Rojava……………………………………………………… 

1. BAKUR [The Northern Cantons]……………………………………………………………..
2. ROJHELAT [The Eastern Front]……………………………………………………………………………..
3. BASHUR [The Southern Cantons]……………………………………………………………..
4. ROJAVA [The Land of the Setting Sun]………………………………………………………..

PART THREE……………………………………………………………………………

• Inner Book Three: A Vision of Life in the Middle East Confederation 

I. [DECOLONIZED JUDEANS: The Eivree back from the exile] ………………………………………

II. [AWAKENED SUNNIS: The majority Arab population and the Turks]……………………………… 

III. [SHI’A REVIVAL: Iran, Lebanon, Bahrain, Hezbollah, Alawites, Popular Mobilization Forces, Houthis]……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

IV. [KURDS & KURDISTAN: A people with no state]………………………………………………………

V. [CHRISTIAN ORTHODOXY: Assyrians, Chaldeans, Maronites, Greek Orthodox Arabs, Armenians]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

VI. [SABEANS: Druze, Yazidis, Samaritans, Zoroastrians, and the protection of special minority populations]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

VIII. [BAHAI]………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

VIII. [SECURING EQUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL PROTECTIONS FOR CITIZENS, GUEST MIGRANTS, and NONBELIEVERS]……………………………………………………………………………

CONCLUSIONS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

• Inner Book Four: A Draft Constitution of the Middle East Confederation 

MAPS & ADDENDA……………………………….……………………………………………

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES…………………………………………………………………………………………….